Ford Motor Company

Staff Supplier Software Integration Engineer

Ford Motor Company$150K — $283K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong background in embedded systems and automotive software integration
  • Proficiency in C/C++ and Python
  • Hands-on experience with CAN, LIN, Ethernet, UDS, and Vector tools
  • Experience with requirements management tools (JAMA), Jira, and Confluence
  • Basic understanding of Git and standard software development workflows
  • Ability to quickly context-switch across multiple technical domains
  • Demonstrated ability to develop tools using AI and scripting to streamline workflows
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Willingness to travel for vehicle testing and integration activities

Responsibilities

  • Integrate supplier software into vehicle architecture considering manufacturability and serviceability
  • Define network interfaces and communication protocols between in-house and supplier ECUs
  • Manage and trace requirements in both directions using JAMA
  • Diagnose and debug supplier ECUs and their interaction with in-house systems
  • Support cybersecurity topics and secure boot integration
  • Perform software integration, testing, and issue resolution on various platforms
  • Support vehicle-level testing at proving grounds as required
  • Identify process inefficiencies and develop automation tools to improve team efficiency

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, and subsidized back-up childcare
  • Family building benefits including adoption and fertility treatments
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members
  • Tuition assistance
  • Established employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for community service
  • Generous paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Year
Full Job Description
Job Description

We're looking for a strong automotive embedded engineer to join our team and help integrate supplier software into our vehicle systems. This is a great role for someone who enjoys working across both software and systems, and who's comfortable learning new things.

This role gives you broad visibility across the entire vehicle system. You'll develop a strong big-picture understanding of how all the pieces fit together, while having the opportunity to dive deeper into the areas that interest you most.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
• Integrate supplier software into our vehicle architecture while ensuring design considerations for manufacturability, serviceability, and diagnostics
• Define network interfaces and communication protocols between in-house and supplier ECUs
• Manage and trace requirements in both directions using JAMA
• Diagnose and debug supplier ECUs and their interaction with in-house systems
• Support cybersecurity topics, secure boot, and bootloader integration
• Perform software integration, bring-up, testing, and issue resolution on benches, HIL systems, and vehicles
• Support vehicle-level testing at proving grounds when required
• Identify process inefficiencies and develop automation tools using LLM and scripting to improve team efficiency

Qualifications

You'll have...
• Strong background in embedded systems and automotive software integration
• Proficiency in C/C++ and Python
• Hands-on experience with CAN, LIN, Ethernet, UDS, and Vector tools
• Experience working with requirements management tools (JAMA), Jira, and Confluence
• Basic understanding of Git and standard software development workflows (branching, PRs, code reviews)
• Ability to quickly context-switch across multiple technical domains
• Demonstrated ability to develop tools using AI and scripting to streamline workflows
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Willingness to travel to support vehicle testing and integration activities when needed

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a leadership level 6 and ranges from $150,200-$283,500.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

#LI-MZ1 #UEV

About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
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